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| blackburne: Chess games of famous person in the web 'Ajedrez de ataque': Bogart, Tolstoi, Einstein, Kafka, Rousseau, Woody Allen, Oscar Wilde, Marx, Lenin, ... http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/02%2... - |
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| Aug-22-07 |
| savagerules: I read a bio about Bogart and even in his final days as he was dying from cancer, next to his deathbed, he had a chessboard set up for analyzing games. |
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Dec-23-07
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| Karpova: Interview with Lauren Bacall from Dec-19-2007
<<Can we talk about Mr. Bogart?>(laughs) What have you got in mind?
<You said something very interesting in your first memoir, that he was not a “tough guy” at all, in spite of the types of roles he played.> He was a very gentle soul. He was very strong, and very sure about what he believed in and what he thought was important and not important. He couldn’t be pushed around. But he was a gentle man. I was very, very lucky to have even met him, much less have been married to him. He had extraordinary gifts. He was much more of a complete individuals than most people are. He had the kind of standards my mother had. Their values were very much the same. It was very interesting. He had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he though of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody’s house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said “I think it’s a crock.” (laughs) And this producer was horrified! He was about the release the movie, and he said to Bogie “Why would you say that?!” Bogie shrugged and said “Then don’t ask me.” He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all. <None of that surprises me because his acting was very honest. He always played very straightforward characters.> That’s right. And that’s who he was. But he was also sentimental, and romantic. He had all those other qualities that were irresistible. And he was highly intelligent. He was an avid reader. He was also a great, great chess player. I mean, a major chess player.> http://thehollywoodinterview.blogsp... |
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| Dec-23-07 |
| Jim Bartle: By chance I saw "The Big Sleep" again last night. Trying to figure out who killed whom for what reason still seems tougher than learning how to mate with knight and bishop. (Or should I say two knights?) |
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Dec-23-07
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| chancho: Casablanca, my favorite Bogart movie.
Hands down. |
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Dec-23-07
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| chancho: <Jim Bartle> You must remember this... a kiss is just a kiss... a sigh is just a sigh... |
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| Dec-23-07 |
| Jim Bartle: I'm shocked, shocked (!), to find there is gambling on this website. |
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Dec-23-07
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| norami: - Why did you come to chessgames.com?
- I came for the romance. The women.
- The women? What women? We're in a chess website!
- I was misinformed. |
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| Dec-23-07 |
| Jim Bartle: Of all the chessjoints in the world, she logs onto this one. |
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| Dec-23-07 |
| hovik2003: I am shocked by finding out that Bogart was a good chess player, and was bogarting his cigar over chessboard also, my respect grows more and more for him and his memory. |
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Dec-23-07
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| whiskeyrebel: I seem to remember reading he got Frank Sinatra interested in chess during the initial house party oriented incarnation of the "Ratpack". I also remember seeing a picture of Sinatra with Walter Browne. At any rate, my fave Bogie films are "the treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "High Sierra". |
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| Dec-23-07 |
| TIMER: Somehow I always think of Capablanca when I see Humphrey Bogart.. Casablanca is too similar a name- and similar time periods. Also both are classics. |
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Jan-03-08
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| Benzol: <madlydeeply> <So where is the Reshevsky draw?> I don't know about it's authenticity but I found this score some time ago and I can't remember where. I've been meaning to post it earlier but other things kept cropping up. Romanoff's Restaurant, Hollywood 1956.
Simultaneous
White : Samuel Reshevsky
Black : Humphrey Bogart
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.d4 f6 7.dxe5 fxg5 8.Qxd5 Qxd5 9.Bxd5 Be7 10.0-0 Bf5 11.c3 Nxe5 12.Bxb7 Rd8 13.Re1 0-0 14.Nd2 Bf6 15.Ne4 Bxe4 16.Bxe4 h6 17.Be3 a5 18.Bc5 Rfe8 19.Rad1 Kh8 20.Rxd8 Rxd8 21.Kf1 Ng4 22.h3 Ne5 23.Ke2 Nc4 24.Rd1 Rxd1 25.Kxd1 Nxb2+ 26.Kc2 Na4 27.Bd4 Bxd4 28.cxd4 1/2-1/2. |
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| Aug-03-08 |
| offramp: He is most famous for never ever passing on a stoogie. |
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| Dec-13-08 |
| wayndom: The position shown in the opening scenes of Casablanca is loaded with symbolism. Casablanca was part of occupied France; Bogart is sitting on the black side of the board, studying a position of the French defense. As he reaches to take the letters of transit from Peter Lorre, he knocks over the black king... |
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Dec-13-08
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| brankat: Bogart and L.Bacall were good fiends with GM S.Gligoric. He told me, years ago, that H.Bogart was a very capable player, who, had he chosen chess instead of acting, would have been a GM potential. These are Gligo's words. He should know. Gligoric added that although they had never played a game, he got that impression while they were analyzing together some of Gligoric's games from 1953 Candidates Tournament. |
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Dec-13-08
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| whiskeyrebel: I'm very impressed that such a talented actor with a hot wife and such an active life found time for chess. |
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| Dec-13-08 |
| hackmate: In Casablanca, was it a real game or just a last minute scene filler Bogie requested? |
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Dec-13-08
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| Benzol: Heard one of Bogart's co-stars from "The Caine Mutiny" died today, Van Johnson aged 92. |
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| Jan-30-09 |
| blackburne: Article: Bogart and Chess (in spanish):
http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2... Various games and biography of Bogart.
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| Jan-31-09 |
| The Lone Banana: < hackmate: In Casablanca, was it a real game or just a last minute scene filler Bogie requested?> Wikipedia claims it was from one of Bogie's own correspondence games AND that it was an addition that Bogie requested. Since the movie was rushed to release, it bids pretty fair that anything not in "Everybody Comes to Rick's" was last-minute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphr... Here's a website that includes a still of the most famous pre-1968 cinematic chess game: http://www.idsnews.com/blogs/weeken... (In 1968, the chess game in "The Thomas Crown Affair" undoubtedly took first place. Who can forget Faye Dunaway distracting Steve McQueen by fondling her bishop?) |
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Mar-05-09
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| playground player: I guess the reason Bogart didn't like "Beat the Devil" was because the screenwriters let Jennifer Jones play chess instead of him. Seriously, any amateur who can last 41 moves with Koltanowski and force a draw with Reshevsky has got to be a bit more than an amateur. |
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| Mar-05-09 |
| Heidi44: Game on the web www.citicapa35@yk.uk.com
Bogart-Capablanca Havanna 1935 |
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| Aug-14-09 |
| kronstieen1: maybe not now but someday you will understand how great bogey was weal always have chess |
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| Sep-14-09 |
| alshatranji: Great actor. But I have to say I find his surviving games rather unimppressive--though this is, admittedly a small sample. |
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